Ice in the kitchen? time to insulate. Keeping the heat in, and the Murder Hornets OUT!
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- Опубликовано: 2 ноя 2024
- Konichiwa Minasan! こんにちみなさん!
I was going to wait until next summer to enter the attic once more... but winter came, and the house was cold.
I chose to use rockwool insulation because it is a great insulator, how it doesn't degrade over time, it's water resistance, and it's fire resistance (pretty good to have in a wooden house with scary old electrics...)
Who first thought to melt a bunch of rocks and create a wool out of their molten strands? What else has been melted?
Understanding that I will most likely need to add more insulation eventually for a more permanent R40 style solution, this is a great start.
All of the rockwool was ordered on Amazon Japan. Probably the best $5 i ever spent for free delivery. I felt bad for the delivery person, but i made sure to help him with the unloading. 15 boxes and we got it done!
The murder hornet nest was found and bashed with a broom. Hopefully next summer they stay clear.
I've started an instagram page and will start to populate it in the coming weeks: / ourhouseinjapan
More fun stuff coming soon : Residency in Japan, Hardware store tour, etc. etc.
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Thank you for joining me on this adventure where I will be posting videos of Our Traditional Old-Folk home (Kominka) in the Japanese Countryside!
Purchased through the local Akiya (空き家) or Vacant house bank, we purchased our Kominka in Nagano prefecture located within mere minutes of an Olymic ski hill!
I hope you enjoy this adventure where I'll be doing renovations, building random stuff, and having fun. I have no idea where it will go. Drop me a line if there's something you want to see!
I love rockwool, great choice of materials.
you are always so positive and cheerful. Love your joke about the soot around your eyes. Very funny indeed ! I hope that you continue to post videos of how you slowly create a home for your family. Would love to follow you on this journey. Thank you and god bless.
Thank you!!! I'll for sure keep them coming!
Watching from Ireland absolutely adore ur new home. Such a beautiful journey ye gone on wish you all the best in the new home ❤
Thank you so much!!! I'm glad you're enjoying it!
Great work, I feel self gratification watching you complete these projects. Arigato🗾
Thank you! I sure have a lot more projects coming on the list!
You're doing great.
Thank you!!
It could be it is spirit money or an offering. It is usually done when the occasion needs a different way than burning Joss paper. It is also laid in coffins. Should it be to thank the old house to make it allow the new house? The 7 elements and harmony are important in Japanese (eastern) buildings. Always better than murder hornets, in my opinion. And a toasty warm home, such a dream.
Thank you so much for the comment! :)
Any wonder they love a hot bath over there. I think I've decided, as much as I love those old houses, that's way too much effort for a holiday home. Thanks for the video.
Oh yes, the hot bath is necessary after a day of work... or better yet the onsen, but i don't think i can show up to an onsen covered in soot, ! Akiya banks often have a lot of abandoned houses from the 70s, 80s, and even 90s. (1970s, i mean, not 1870s)... possibly with modern insulation and hot water :)
Thank you for your comment and encouragement!
There are proper holiday homes from the 80s and 90s you can get in a forest in the middle of nowhere if that's all you want. Not so much effort but not so much around either.
enjoying from Bali
Amazing! I lived in Bali for 5 years! (Sanur), NTB for 3 years before that!
@@OurHouseInJapan A little slow in response---we have been watching all your videos--enjoying them all--Cheers to your life.
@@Sahajayana-Nirvanasara awesome! Thank you. More coming soon! Matur suksema 🤣
Hi from Australia
Hi! Hope you enjoyed it!
I wonder if when the house is warm for the first time in its life, the timbers might start shrinking and moving ?
I don't think so as it's already 22 degrees during the day (8 at night) and the summer gets hot hot hot at 35 celcius.
It used to have a hearth most likely with hot smoke hitting the cold beams. It's also survived countless earthquakes as the wood's built to move a bit in the joints.
You've done a HUGE amount of work 👍
Would a layer of silver foil sheeting over the rockwool trap a lot more warm air ?
I hadn't thought about it. Sounds like an interesting idea. I'm always afraid of additional layers creating any opportunity for moisture to get trapped. I will have to look into this. 💪
@@OurHouseInJapan You're living my dream man, thank you for sharing 👍😆
@@edwardfletcher7790 my pleasure. I'm glad you enjoyed it. There will be more fun to come!
No, you don't need a radiant barrier, it wouldn't be helpful in a winter climate and it would need air gaps to have any effect (staple it to the upper rafters not put it on the floor where it would get dusty and do nothing). I'd add another layer of rockwool oriented in the other direction of you don't need to walk around there.
All the black on the beams is soot? OMGoodness!! Doesn’t soot build up cause fires?? Or is that just in chimneys? Hornets in your house? No bueno!!
I think it increases fire risk in chimneys because it cakes and then catches fire. Here it actually helps prevent bugs and termites, so not all bad 😁 it will still be a big job when converting the attic spaces
crazy, ropes lol
I wondered about their strength when I had to hold onto one so I wouldn't fall through the fake ceiling... It held but I don't want to test my luck again...
So we don’t get really cold winters in Tokyo compared to Europe.
But our rental apartment (made of wood), no insulation and gaps in strange places etc, makes our house colder in the winter than it is outside 🤣
Another problem is the no central heating part. Aircon doesn’t warm the place itself jus the air, so as soon as you turn it off, air turns cold.
Omg you have hornets🐝 ? I would absolutely die😂
Gaps in strane places is what I'm finding in my house too :) My wife still wants central heating... i think I'll dream about that... before walking into the 3 degree kitchen in the mornings. Maybe I'll just be the central heater walking around and turning everything on in the morning.
Yeah, murder hornets are not cool. these 6cm / 2 inch flying devils are not my friends. I hope they don't return this coming summer
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Aircons + insulation are quite warm so no need for central heating.
Process on d easier portion first 😅 good job 👍
Thank you! Good advice. Slowly slowly it will get done!
Oh yeah. Japanese winters are the harshest to live through (in a way. They definitely feel to be the coldest), unless we're talking Hokkaido where people know the word insulation.
Minus 40 outside practically guarantees plus 25 inside in any normal country.
Any not northen area in Japan? When it's 0 degrees outside, it's 1 degree inside. Houses are just thin paper on sticks. Or naked concrete. With precipitation on walls. Urgh...
Funnily enough Japanese people think it's the norm. So when they hear "minus 30 in winter" and gasp at the idea of anyone living in such conditions they're thinking it's minus 30 inside too😂
Tokyo and subsequent areas are the worst of all. You don't even get snow so it's just 1~2 degrees above 0 anywhere you go. For months. With rain.
With enough insulation here's hoping I can change that 🤣 7 months until next winter to see how it goes. I would be happy if it stays 10 degrees instead of 2 ;)
張りの上に有る看板は、看板では無くて、貴方の自宅を棟上げした当時の前所有者様の御先祖様が棟上げと言って、新築した際に建築の際に安全に建築出来・家族一同が幸せに暮らせる事を願って神社の御札とセットにして大黒柱に施工した記念すべき大切な物です。 貴方の自宅が、何時代の何月何日に誰が棟上げしたかが判ります。其のまま残しておくと良いと思います。素敵な日本家屋を此れからも残し続けて下さると幸いです。
リフォームの参考になれば良いのですが、昔の造りは、現在では入手不可能な材木が枌段に使われていますが、地震や積雪に耐える為に沢山の横梁が有りますから無闇に切り落とすと倒壊してしまう恐れが有りますから、
地元の宮大工さんにリフォームの箇所を相談・確認してからリフォームをした方が良いと思います
。宮大工さんは、古来の建築技法で施工していますから貴方の自宅の梁の仕組みも理解していると思います。後は、床暖房や太陽光発電等の現代の便利な技術を取り入れつつも古民家を再生しながら住まわれると最高だと思います😊。素敵な日本生活を満喫なさって下さいね。
どうもありがとうございます！
貴重な情報ありがとうございます。私も大工さんが作ったお家をサスティナブルな未来のためにリニューアルしたいです。